Save Royal Mail

[techen]

 
If anyone wants to sign this feel free!
 
It's my job and am about to no doubt loose it due to privatisation.
 
 
Prices are already high with royal mail, But once sold it may double or even go higher. They'll be no postage to the country side, HM armed forces free mail will be stopped.
 
It's about to get messy for mail and I very much doubt other companies can take the slack if RM falls through, You need to remind yourself how big RM is and how long they've been there. There huge and can hold a ton of mail.
 
 
http/saveourroyalmail.org/

 

[Sophie]

Done

 

[techen]

Thank you for the support <3

 

[Shelster]

Signed! Never knew they were in trouble.

I have a postie friend in Banchory too - near Aberdeen.

 

[techen]

It's been over the news, There selling off all the post offices and next is to wait for someone to buy over the company and that means a lot of cut backs.

 

[Shelster]

ill check the news out later.

 

[TallTree01]

Done! Hope they don't mind I'm an Aussie!

 

[Zikofski]

LOL hahaha poor techen is gona be out of a job soon haha

 

[TallTree01]

Don't laugh! He won't be able to afford fish tanks anymore!

 

[eaglesaquarium]

LOL hahaha poor techen is gona be out of a job soon haha

That's not funny.

 

[dgwebster]

I think the country as a whole needs to get a lot smarter and ageing institutions are a huge part of that. I would hate to see the Royal Mail go south but do believe that its current method of operation is not smart. It is with a sad thought that to go on operating effectively it does mean that jobs will go, hopefully that can be worked with displacement and retirements to ensure nobody is needlessly effected: my grandfather was a postie for 50 years of service and a private company will not save the business but instead break it up, chew it and spit out the gristle it doesn't like, alienating staff to the point the shell that is left will not operate what is left that needs to be done. Support given!

 

[the_lock_man]

I think people would be a whole lot more supportive if the service that is currently offered was reliable. I went through a period where Royal Mail was losing about 25% of my outgoing mail. So that's 25% of my invoices not getting through, delaying me in getting paid. That's 25% of my quotations to potential customers not being delivered, thus affecting my order book. To counter this, as much of our outgoing mail as possible is emailed or faxed now, our franking machine spend is about 80% lower than it was 3 years ago.
 
We came home from holiday at one point to find someone else's vehicle registration document had been delivered to us. It had been addressed correctly, but delivered to the wrong house. One of our bank statements was delivered to a house around the corner - different number, different street. By a freaky coincidence, it was friends of ours, so they gave it back to us, but it could just as easily have been to someone who was active in identity theft, and they could have used the information to empty our bank account.
 
This is all down to a lack of caring on the part of the people who sort and deliver it all. Techy, I'm sure you're just as conscientious about your job as you are about your fish and tanks, but it seems to me that  "Postmen" in general need to take a long hard look at why the Royal Mail is suffering the problems, and see if there is anything they can individually and collectively do about it.
 
I'm sorry if this is unpopular in some parts, but it's my honest opinion.

 

[dgwebster]

the_lock_man raises the common issues that people do get: for 4 years I had to get my credit & bank cards delivered to my local branch after 3 in a row went missing in the post to my home. We regularly received any random mail through our door including mail intended for different streets too. After much complaining, the guy was either fired or put on a different route, but our postman changed. our mail tends to only arrive every 2 days, after 2pm (this was when the second postal round was cancelled to get more people their post before 9am - ours turned out to arrive later) but much of this is not the joe bloggs plodding the street at fault: many of the criticisms are due to decisions made by management and we do fail to perceive the 75% of post that had no problems. Anyone that works in a "failure" job role will confirm this - you can think your employer is terrible at getting things right, just because you only hear about when it went wrong and not the figures where it was job well done.
 
Techen, you clearly are passionate about your job: you are worried about its future. Sadly though its the bad experiences that people judge their decisions on, especially if it is hitting them in their pocket like the_lock_man was having. Eventually it is a service that will be almost entirely replaced by modern equivalents, the same that happened to the passenger rail service, telegrams and so forth throughout history. Change isn't a bad thing, but it can create uncertainty and therefore fear and it can also be implemented badly. Its the thought of poor implementation that leads to me lending the Royal Mail my support to stay public, but doesn't guaranteed that its development to cope with the future will not still be implemented badly.

 

[SO19Firearms]

I spend about £1000 a month with Royal mail, they only "loose" about 2 or 3 packets a year a tiny fraction.
I feel mostly for places such as Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Guernsey, Jersey, BFPO, all of the Scottish islands and most of the outlying areas of Scotland... Spending £30 to get your £10 internet order will seem pretty harsh.

 

[TallTree01]

^ did you put " loose" in ' " ' marks because you knew you spelt it wrong?